![]() On Twitter, there are French followers of "prequel memes." Aged between 24 and 26, those who we interviewed often liked the original trilogy, but still preferred the prequels. They are geeks who recognize themselves in this unloved trilogy, criticized by their elders, and who can gather around shared references. These are people who are just out of adolescence, or still in the midst of it, who wield ironic and self-deprecating humor. The latter grew up with these movies and with the animated series The Clone Wars and Rebels. ![]() The prequel trilogy memes resonate with "those aged between 13 to 30," said AdventurousSwine, co-founder of the subreddit with TheDStudge. "When you realize that the prelogy memes were probably created to make fun of how cheesy and stupid the prelogy was but now everyone, including you, still loves the prelogy because of them." "Ironic," Palpatine concludes, in dialogue from Episode III. It was an instant success: Six months after its creation, it had amassed 250,000 subscribers. This was the moment that a certain TheDStudge chose to launch the Reddit section "r/prequelmemes," which he fed with images and gifs from the prequel that he and his high school friends had been collecting for weeks. A year earlier, The Force Awakens broke all the box office records. It was December 2016 and Rogue One had just been released. ![]() WINGSPANTT The original trilogy? 'A thing of the past' Not just the senators, but the women senators and the children senators," Anakin Skywalker boasts, paraphrasing a poignant dialogue from "Episode II. Indeed, it wasn't until 2015, and the annual release of new Disney-produced films, that the prequel trilogy found a new lease on life – and the "prequel memes" found new meaning. "While the first imitations of the prequel trilogy were initially intended to mock the films (like Darth Vader's scream that became the laughing stock of the internet from the early 2000s), they didn't immediately become sensations," said Matt Schimkowitz, a writer for the specialized site Know Your Meme. How can this success be explained, when the Reddit sections dedicated to the imitation of the other trilogies attract between four and nine times fewer people? And when two of the first three films of this prequel are generally considered as the weakest of the saga? There's never been an equivalent for 'Star Wars,'" Obi-Wan Kenobi seems to discover, forbiddingly. Who makes Star Wars jokes? All the memes are about Thanos or Ant-Man. Such is the popularity of the phenomenon that a "prequel meme" once held the record for most popular link in Reddit's otherwise rich history. So many, in fact, that it is hot on the heels of the general section dedicated to the series ( "r/starwars") and its 2.2 million subscribers. That's where, three years ago, the "r/prequelmemes" section appeared, which now counts some 2.1 million users and 2,000 comments a day. ![]() While the so-called "prequel memes" (in reference to the "prequel trilogy," so-called because the story takes place before the original trilogy) are popular on YouTube and other platforms such as 9gag, it is on the Reddit forum that they are most shared. " It's over Anakin, I have the high ground," " I am the Senate", " Hello there": In theory, these aren't the most famous lines from the Star Wars universe, but for a generation of internet users raised on Episodes I, II and III, released between 19, they are nonetheless the equivalents of "I am your father" or "May the force be with you."Įndlessly imitated, paired with offbeat situations, these clips from George Lucas' second trilogy have invaded the internet, to the point of becoming a mainstay of online humor, on a par with the animated gifs of funny animals or rage comics of their day. One of the favorite comic springs of "r/prequelmemes". In the films, Anakin Skywalker, rejected by the Jedi Council, eventually turns to the evil Sith. The release of the 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series on Disney+ on Friday was a major event for young 'Star Wars' fans, who grew up with the 1990-2000 trilogy and 'The Clone Wars' series.īy Corentin Lamy Published on at 17h19, updated at 17h21 on May 28, 2022 'Obi-Wan Kenobi': How the 'Star Wars' prequel became a cult on the Internet
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